Josef Hofmann
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Josef Casimir Hofmann was a Polish-American pianist, composer, music teacher, and inventor.
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Hofmann as a young man at the keyboard
Hofmann in 1916
Josef Hofmann playing solos in the Metropolitan Opera House gala on November 28, 1937, the 50th anniversary of his American debut.
Anton Rubinstein
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Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein was a Russian pianist, composer and conductor who founded the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. He was the elder brother of Nikolai Rubinstein, who founded the Moscow Conser
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…and the young Mendelssohn. The young Hofmann took music lessons from Heinrich Urban (composition) and with the pianist and composer Moritz Moszkowski. Anton Rubinstein heard the seven-year-old Hofmann play Beethoven's C minor Piano Concerto in Warsaw and declared him to be an unprecedented talent. At Rubinstein's…
Portrait by Ilya Repin (1887)
Brothers Rubinstein: Nikolai (left) and Anton, 1862
"Van II": Liszt considered Rubinstein to have a physical likeness to Ludwig van Beethoven.
Rubinstein headstone in Tikhvin Cemetery, Saint Petersburg